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- Wilella Sibert Cather (December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) is among ... The first two are part of the so-called "prairie trilogy," ...10 KB (1,563 words) - 12:02, 5 May 2023
- as a singer, Rogers formed Sons of the Pioneers, a western cowboy music ... Rogers' replacement in the Sons of the Pioneers, began playing zany camp ...17 KB (2,459 words) - 20:50, 21 December 2022
- Pioneers traveled in wagons across the Oregon Trail, one of the main overland migration routes on the North American continent, in order to settle ...14 KB (2,196 words) - 01:12, 18 November 2022
- Modern dance is a dance form that developed in the early twentieth ... The early modern dance pioneers of the 1920s through the 1940s broke ...18 KB (2,688 words) - 19:25, 9 November 2022
- and psychologist, famous for his research on the psychology of music and sound ... and effectively became one of the pioneers in this discipline. He ...10 KB (1,352 words) - 15:19, 27 November 2023
- are about populating the wilderness; in The Pioneers his father appears directly ... very successful at the date of issue; The Pioneers (1823), the first of the ...22 KB (3,344 words) - 01:33, 8 February 2023
- Florentine noble house. As one of the pioneers in modern rhythmic notation ... He studied under the organist and famous madrigalist Luzzasco Luzzaschi ...5 KB (689 words) - 07:48, 24 January 2023
- in digital form and exhibits them via the Internet. Most virtual museums ... Some virtual museums exist solely in a virtual environment. The Museum ...12 KB (1,742 words) - 20:36, 3 May 2023
- Max Wertheimer (April 15, 1880 – October 12, 1943) was one of the ... Starting with the observation of apparent movement, the phi phenomenon ...13 KB (1,949 words) - 01:04, 9 November 2022
- a Hoffman voltameter is being used for the electrolysis of water. It ... by passing an electric current through them. The process is extremely useful ...7 KB (1,039 words) - 04:29, 27 November 2020
- with Max Wertheimer and Kurt Koffka, in the development of Gestalt psychology ... Köhler gained fame with The Mentality of Apes, in which he argued ...14 KB (2,050 words) - 23:20, 17 May 2023
- philanthropist often considered as one of the fathers Reform Judaism. ... He is recognized today as one of the pioneers of Reform Judaism, even ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 06:05, 11 March 2024
- She and her husband, Ted Shawn, founded the influential dance school ... State in 1938, which is credited as one of the first dance departments in ...12 KB (1,963 words) - 23:52, 21 August 2022
- Albion Woodbury Small (May 11, 1854 – March 24, 1926) founded the ... *Small, Albion W. 1963 (original 1909). The Cameralists. The Pioneers ...7 KB (1,052 words) - 17:49, 19 December 2022
- The City of Rocks is a U.S. National Reserve and state park at the ... The City of Rocks is an extraordinary granite encirclement of rock ...16 KB (2,492 words) - 22:26, 10 December 2023
- c.e.) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, the third of the philosophers ... Thales, the first philosopher of Ionia, conceived the original being ...7 KB (1,024 words) - 19:08, 26 July 2023
- 1, 1918) was an American educator and one of the leaders of the Kindergarten ... and at a young age became familiar with the work of Friedrich Froebel ...8 KB (1,080 words) - 04:10, 6 November 2022
- The Mormon handcart pioneers were participants in the migration of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) to ...42 KB (6,112 words) - 13:14, 10 March 2023
- (May 20, 1825 – November 5, 1921), was the first woman to be ordained ... The honor of being the first woman to be ordained as a Christian minister ...8 KB (1,157 words) - 06:47, 31 July 2023
- While the sports department within some newspapers has been mockingly ... La Gazzetta dello Sport in Italy, and the now defunct Sporting Life ...19 KB (2,940 words) - 21:42, 7 February 2023
- who made important early contributions to the development of radar. He served ... Not only did radar greatly assist the Allies in the world war, but ...7 KB (1,005 words) - 05:01, 17 June 2023
- Space exploration is the physical exploration of outer space, by both ... for geopolitical rivalries, particularly the Cold War. The early era of ...20 KB (2,963 words) - 19:03, 7 February 2023
- The outback, also known as the Great Australian Desert, is the remote ... The desert image of the outback belies the land's natural riches—gold ...7 KB (1,078 words) - 20:04, 20 January 2023
- the 1850s until the 1870s, and many of the pioneers in the reed organ industry ... Catalogue states: "We are the pioneers and leading manufacturers ...14 KB (2,056 words) - 04:20, 9 November 2022
- eighteenth century. He was also one of the pioneers of the private exhibition ... He was also one of the pioneers of the private exhibition, orchestrating ...16 KB (2,390 words) - 04:03, 3 May 2024
- 1916) was an American educator, dedicated to the education of young children ... Susan Blow was born in St. Louis, Missouri, as the oldest of six children ...9 KB (1,286 words) - 23:57, 26 February 2023
- She believed that children lacked the experience needed to make ... Beecher was born in East Hampton, New York, the oldest of 13 children ...8 KB (1,133 words) - 00:09, 1 December 2023
- of modern architecture that flourished in the Soviet Union in the 1920s ... A central aim of Constructivist architects was to instill the avant ...17 KB (2,374 words) - 02:43, 8 January 2024
- To appreciate the value and the richness of the Korean Sirhak, one ... deserve our admiration for having been the pioneers of the Sirhak not just ...16 KB (2,572 words) - 09:49, 26 January 2023
- gulag survivor. He frequently wrote under the pseudonyms Nikolay Arzhak ... The trial of Daniel and Sinyavsky was the beginning of another period ...8 KB (1,077 words) - 10:24, 7 June 2023
- The Sea of Galilee or Lake Kinneret (Hebrew ים כנרת), is Israel ... The Kinneret is fed by underground springs, but its main source is ...16 KB (2,502 words) - 17:32, 25 January 2023
- "amber") is a general term for the variety of phenomena resulting ... Human ability to harness electricity is one of the keys for the establishment ...20 KB (2,998 words) - 15:53, 13 February 2024
- using electronic devices. As defined by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical ... electromechanical designs and they paved the way for the later emergence ...23 KB (3,345 words) - 16:02, 13 February 2024
- genres emerging from or influenced by the culture of African Americans ... fans showed no desire to learn about the pioneers he learned from. The 1950s ...16 KB (2,453 words) - 06:05, 16 June 2023
- wit and dialogue. He was also one of the early pioneers of what would ... His mother died when he was five. At the age of 14 he was sent to ...8 KB (1,223 words) - 15:24, 11 November 2022
- was a British psychologist, one of the pioneers of cognitive and experimental ... Bartlett was born in 1886 in Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire, England ...9 KB (1,276 words) - 10:25, 11 April 2024
- school, and kindergarten teacher, one of the leaders of the Kindergarten ... who founded Bellewood Female Seminary. The Hill parents tried to provide ...9 KB (1,385 words) - 16:48, 21 November 2022
- American singer and songwriter and one of the pioneers of country music. His biggest hit song, "Walking the Floor Over You" (1941), marked the ...8 KB (1,315 words) - 19:33, 13 February 2024
- Mathematical logic is often divided into the subfields of model theory ... One unifying theme in mathematical logic is the study of the expressive ...11 KB (1,513 words) - 16:50, 7 November 2022
- a dwarf, Webb was able to become perhaps the most powerful drummer of the ... for a greater wealth of top soloists, the bouncy energy and special ...9 KB (1,389 words) - 15:18, 10 December 2023
- A Congressional Gold Medal is an award bestowed by the United States ... The Gold Medal and the Presidential Medal of Freedom are generally ...10 KB (1,549 words) - 19:21, 15 May 2020
- it has specific rules and etiquette for the dancers to follow. different types of dance, with origins in the many kinds of dances that ...19 KB (2,953 words) - 16:29, 27 April 2024
- The term soft drink—more commonly known as soda, pop, or soda pop ... (though not always) carbonated. By contrast, the term "hard drink" ...25 KB (3,852 words) - 15:05, 27 April 2023
- In chemistry, chemical synthesis is the purposeful execution of one ... workers in this area include one of the pioneers of computational chemistry ...10 KB (1,522 words) - 14:47, 5 December 2023
- Big Sur is a 100-mile stretch of ruggedly beautiful seacoast along ... Big Sur's boundaries are loosely defined; many definitions of ...23 KB (3,598 words) - 03:49, 1 October 2023
- is a general term which refers to change in the nature, the social institutions ... in society. If the initiatives of the pioneers succeed, then it encourages ...31 KB (4,566 words) - 15:00, 27 April 2023
- his work on analog computing, his role in the development of the atomic ... to Richard Perry Bush (unrelated to the Bush political family) and ...25 KB (3,736 words) - 14:34, 3 May 2023
- 21, 1880 – May 29, 1961) was a pioneer in the field of child development ... influence of G. Stanley Hall, one of the pioneers in the study of child ...11 KB (1,524 words) - 03:53, 15 August 2023
- a Greek Neoplatonist philosopher, was one of the chief pioneers of the revival ... His clarification of the distinction between Platonic and Aristotelian ...11 KB (1,525 words) - 06:39, 18 April 2024
- 300px|The old Co-operative building behind the Gateshead Millennium Bridge ... or co-op) is defined as a business owned by the people who use its services ...22 KB (3,153 words) - 02:54, 8 January 2024
- The Midwestern United States (or Midwest) refers to the north-central ... The Census Bureau divides this region into the East North Central ...28 KB (4,092 words) - 10:57, 10 March 2023
- Improvisation is the art of acting and reacting, in the moment, to ... The art of improvisation often focuses on bringing one's personal ...10 KB (1,481 words) - 15:30, 4 February 2023
- writer and visionary. He is one of the pioneers of the Arabic novel and ... Egyptian civil officer, worked as a judge in the judiciary in the Egyptian ...19 KB (2,884 words) - 18:13, 2 December 2023
- Louise Lang, and Yale Joel at a cafe in the Bois de Boulogne after World ... Seymour was one of the pioneers of the fast moving, front-line, battle ...11 KB (1,618 words) - 08:09, 28 January 2024
- photographer who became a key figure in the development of American pictorialism ... Pound dubbed a "Vortoscope," and the resulting photographs "Vortographs ...23 KB (3,410 words) - 08:45, 23 July 2023
- Although he is often mentioned as the associate of Jeremy Bentham ... James Mill was born April 6, 1773, at Northwater Bridge, in the parish ...11 KB (1,705 words) - 08:37, 1 April 2024
- born British entrepreneur and media owner, the founder of Reuters news agency ... An innovator in the field, he still recognized the need to cooperate ...11 KB (1,609 words) - 01:30, 23 November 2022
- The Battle of Kandahar, September 1, 1880, represents the last major ... Great Britain had become a dominant colonial power during the eighteenth ...22 KB (3,333 words) - 10:03, 22 September 2023
- vocal advocate of gender equality, the wife of abolitionist Henry ... Stone was born on the August 13, 1818, on her family's Massachusetts ...11 KB (1,805 words) - 02:36, 5 November 2022
- Utah, a state located in the western United States, was the 45th state ... Utah's pivotal central western location makes the state a natural ...39 KB (5,757 words) - 13:47, 3 May 2023
- French physicist, Nobel laureate, and one of the discoverers of radioactivity ... of new discoveries about energy, including the newly recognized X-rays of ...11 KB (1,682 words) - 15:20, 25 January 2023
- for his "Knightian uncertainty," the distinction between risk and ... high school but was admitted in 1905 to the American University in Tennessee ...12 KB (1,691 words) - 05:05, 9 April 2024
- Beginning his career in the string quartet of Joseph Lanner, Strauss ... as his eldest son's, he was one of the pioneers of the waltz as a serious ...11 KB (1,610 words) - 14:55, 1 August 2022
- United States National Park located east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range ... square km—over 3.4 million acres), it is the largest national park in the ...35 KB (5,565 words) - 08:57, 28 January 2024
- February 10, 1923) was a German physicist of the University of Würzburg. On ... Despite the fame he achieved for his discovery, Röntgen chose the ...11 KB (1,777 words) - 10:38, 5 May 2023
- study of dissociative disorders laid the foundation for analytical ... Paul Janet, a professor of philosophy at the Sorbonne and a devoted follower ...12 KB (1,594 words) - 05:23, 24 November 2022
- sociologist, and historian, one of the pioneers of the school of institutional ... Commons' work, improving the life of labor class, formed a substantial ...13 KB (1,864 words) - 07:07, 3 August 2022
- a college of arts, science, and commerce. The Senate of Serampore College ... unable to retrieve. --> The Latin name of the college motto, Gloriam ...14 KB (1,875 words) - 09:54, 26 January 2023
- neoclassical economist, a pioneer of the marginalist revolution in ... Clark sought to discover economic relationships, such as the relationship ...13 KB (1,870 words) - 07:36, 5 April 2024
- The Omaha tribe is a Native American tribe that currently reside in ... During the late 1700s and early 1800s, the Omaha were briefly the ...12 KB (1,854 words) - 00:35, 18 November 2022
- a German ethnographer, who contributed to the development of ethnography ... Bastian is remembered as one of the pioneers of the concept of the ...12 KB (1,733 words) - 06:01, 15 June 2023
- an American military leader, politician, and the ninth President of the United ... When Harrison took office in 1841 at the age of 68, he was the oldest ...12 KB (1,810 words) - 10:57, 9 May 2023
- became a self-appointed missionary for the Church of the New Jerusalem ... Known to many as the beloved Johnny Appleseed, he understood the practical ...11 KB (1,788 words) - 08:14, 3 August 2022
- The Brothers Grimm (Brüder Grimm, in their own words, not Gebrüder ... and for their work in linguistics, relating to how the sounds in words ...12 KB (1,806 words) - 04:36, 22 November 2023
- a French scholar and archaeologist, one of the early pioneers of Egyptology ... in 1827, when he was only six years old. At the age of 12 he was already able ...11 KB (1,685 words) - 19:00, 21 August 2023
- The Compromise of 1850 was a series of laws that attempted to resolve ... The measures, designed by Whig Senator Henry Clay (who failed to get ...12 KB (1,866 words) - 00:22, 8 January 2024
- a woman, and yet becoming president of both the American Psychological Association ... In her early work in psychology she developed the paired-associate ...14 KB (1,967 words) - 16:15, 7 November 2022
- charge, known as positive and negative. The charge on an electron is, ... is, its net electric charge is zero) because the number of protons within its ...14 KB (2,244 words) - 00:13, 13 February 2024
- Sewall Green Wright (December 21, 1889 – March 3, 1988) was an American geneticist who was one of three major pioneers in the wedding of genetics ...14 KB (1,960 words) - 19:51, 21 April 2023
- and blues and gospel music and originated in the late 1950s in the United States. Rhythm and blues (a combination of blues and jazz) arose in the 1940s ...11 KB (1,733 words) - 01:19, 4 February 2023
- – September 6, 1903) is a key figure in the development of library science ... Cutter was the editor of Library Journal from 1891-1893. One of the ...13 KB (2,026 words) - 01:48, 4 December 2023
- that can be steered and propelled through the air. It is classified as an ... Airships were the first form of aircraft to make controlled, powered ...40 KB (6,108 words) - 07:11, 16 June 2023
- work in human instinctual behavior and the development of social psychology ... McDougall was born on June 22, 1871 in Lancashire, England, as the ...13 KB (1,861 words) - 10:35, 11 May 2023
- and subsequently bought by Harold the pioneers of popular journalism ... The Daily Mirror was launched on November 2, 1903, by Alfred Harmsworth ...13 KB (1,917 words) - 16:59, 13 May 2020
- park located in southwestern Utah in the United States. Contained within ... elevation than nearby Zion National Park and the Grand Canyon. The rim at Bryce ...23 KB (3,572 words) - 16:49, 22 November 2023
- his work with mental patients, he discounted the unconscious postulated by ... He is considered by many "the father of industrial psychology ...13 KB (1,901 words) - 12:17, 4 February 2023
- artists like James Brown and Sly and the Family Stone in the late 1960s ... driven by sixteenth-note divisions of the beat; crisp and active rhythm ...12 KB (1,982 words) - 07:21, 15 April 2024
- 1996) was a Greek poet, considered as one of the most important representatives ... the Sorbonne and was well received by the pioneers of the world's avant ...12 KB (1,487 words) - 23:55, 17 November 2022
- music’s most legendary pianists and one of the greatest. His airy, volatile ... Earl Hines was born in the Pittsburgh suburb of Duquesne, Pennsylvania ...12 KB (1,904 words) - 17:33, 12 February 2024
- Zion National Park is a United States national park located in the ... A prominent feature in the 229-square-mile (593 square kilometer) ...32 KB (4,872 words) - 06:07, 13 June 2023
- was already widely known and respected in the world of physics. He discovered ... He shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in physics with his wife Marie Curie ...14 KB (2,057 words) - 05:21, 24 November 2022
- George Antheil became one of the pioneers in searching for alternatives ... His earliest musical training was on the viola at age five. In 1916 ...12 KB (1,763 words) - 07:01, 18 April 2024
- Martha Graham (May 11, 1894 - April 1, 1991), an American dancer and choreographer, is known as one of the foremost pioneers of modern dance ...12 KB (1,810 words) - 16:26, 6 November 2022
- #039;s short story writing was influenced by the Bible, the stories of the ... recognition as an authoress. Dinesen felt the native people—the Somali ...13 KB (2,045 words) - 07:11, 5 October 2022
- Abenezra) (1092 or 1093 – 1167) was one of the most distinguished Jewish ... Born in Spain, he spent much of his life traveling in North Africa ...14 KB (2,169 words) - 06:29, 14 June 2023
- is a global news agency, headquartered in the United States. The company ... Newspaper publisher Edward W. Scripps (1854 — 1926) created the ...13 KB (1,927 words) - 11:51, 3 May 2023
- and his brother, Allen W. Dulles, directed the C.I.A.. As Eisenhower's ... Dulles was one of the pioneers of the concept of brinkmanship. In ...14 KB (1,941 words) - 05:09, 3 August 2022
- authors. Strindberg is known as one of the fathers of modern theater ... by Symbolism. He is considered one of the pioneers of the Modern European ...13 KB (1,951 words) - 18:29, 21 August 2023
- of the twentieth century and one of the pioneers of recorded music. Caruso ... recordings and made millions of dollars from the sale of his 78 rpm records ...13 KB (1,957 words) - 18:55, 13 February 2024
- Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve is a U.S. National ... The Monument was established on May 2, 1924. A Presidential proclamation ...35 KB (5,657 words) - 06:16, 11 January 2024
